The Official HOP "I just learned a new move" thread

I managed to do a reverse weave going under my left leg, then back out to the right, and then back to the left, under the left leg. Not graceful yet, but getting there....at least I'm not smackin' myself everytime I do it.

Now....isolations...they...seem conceptually easy, but are terribly hard to actually, physically comprehend.

flid taught me tangled buzzsaw, i can get out of it about once in three attempts.

tangled buzzsaw????

Ooh, tangled buzzsaw. I'm hoping to get Rev to teach me 'em next week.

i think its also possibly called a inner hyperloop...

actually... you can put one in the middle of a hyperloop or you can do it inside...
er.... what I mean is.. you can do a normal hyperloopand have it pass through the buzzsaw oryou can do a hyperloop just inside the buzzsaw where it tanlges and untangle s on the inside..

where's the *jumping up and down with exitement* emoticon huh?

just learnt 1-up pirouette out of and back into buzzsaw...

ooooh the joys of learning to juggle before learning poi....


R


(and i'm with rev on the definitions )

yay! whilst in SB, i finally got that damn butterfly weave.... the same time one. and all because i tried working with flags (which didn't go so well)

I just learnt how to do a vertical butterfly and bounce it of my stomach/back . And change directions doing it .

And that butterfly weave is really hard we done !.

haha it feels so good when u finally get the move and it like falls into place lol, i jsut reently learned how to buts a 3 beat behing the back reverse weave and then while trying to learn how to reverse it u jsut do a 180 and wrap your rght poi on behinud your forwarm and the left on your lag then unravel them into a reverse 3 bt weave:))

I just learnt all direct turns with cross-over Its really funny do turns with hand crossed and with opossite direction,split time etc.

haha i ahve been with mine for about a year now and ill neve rlet go lol i already shred everyone i've ever seen at parties xept for 1 guy lol cant wait to c myslef in a few years of practice

just got btb buzzsaw with a couple of stalls too, now to try and not make it look so camp.......

6 ball sync flash

okay, so i've only ever done it once but it'll get more and more regular as ejc approaches...

Does dancing count in this thread? I've learnt to dance with poi. I've been getting more and more relaxed over hte last month, learning to un-learn all the rigid moves I know and to just flow with it. And I finally got it last night, listenning to a paul van dyke cd (politics, i think). Really moving to the music, mixing it up with wraps and weird timings, changing styles depending on the feel of the trance. I was even doing some sort of 6-plane move with two isolations in each plane as I circled.

Yep, I'm obssessed.

Of course dancing counts! It's the best part of poi, if you ask me.

I've been learning to turn and spin more - putting those butterfly weaves and under-the-arm windmills to work.

As far as technical things go, I've learned the easier under-the-leg patterns and am trying to figure out where to go from there.

Got my under the leg hyperloop down, and after some inspiration from a crazy poi guy i met on new years eve i've gone butterfly stalls crazy. just starting to isolate my btb weave and i'm happy.

under the leg hyperloop, isolated btb weave ....

*is impressed*

as for me ive been playng around with the butterfly and stuff. learnt a cool sequence of moves yesterday. from thread the needle, with right arm go to behin the head then keeping poi and arm in straightline go to behind the back while moving left poi to behind head, then bring right poi in front and do the straight arm thing with the left, repeat - this looks pretty, and is easy

wow. im so crap. only just started learning. i no its sounds really easy but i learnt these 2 moves in the oast coupla days. I can do one handed butterfly for about 6 beats before cbecomming a tangled mess of pink nylon and blonde hair, but i can still do it, lol and the other is where i start off in a corkscrew the make both the same time above my head, kneel down and arch my back so that the poi go into sort of an atom shape, then the trick is coumming back up again lol.

I'm still learning alot of moves and all but in the last couple days i've learned thread the needle, high turn, tuck turn and the backwards weave, the windmill, the mexican horizontal wave and the alternate butterfly combination! i still have alot to learn tho and i think the behind the back stuff will take alot of practice!

Christina*

errm, i showed the london crowd my new backwards flowers, and they loved them! and last night i managed to rotate a 4 ball stack!

T :boing:

he's right - those flowers were damn pretty

i finally learnt rubenstein's.
it's not as hard as i thought...

mr oli
Under the leg hyperloops aren't really that hard. Do you remember the wierd misinterpreted hyperloops i was doing in the wall plane when i met you. They really weren't that fantastic. . But If you hyperloop in the wall plane as i was trying then all it is, is getting your right hand through and under your right leg (if your spinning clockwise, the opposite if you spin anti clockwise). make the poi to meet on the front side of your body, then they spin on their axis under your leg (giving you a little more room, and avoiding tecticular impact) Now your left hand must be through your legs and pointing kind of upwards in some kind of inverted camp hand. The poi should untangle. It's getting my hands and poi back out that if find the hardest and i can't really explain very well but give it a go.
I can do another one with the reverse weave under my leg and then just hyperloop it as a normal, " but still only in one direction.. ..."

I got a waistwrap airwrap yesterday few more misspent hours and turn them into hyperloops aswell......

Give them a go oli your hyperloops looked beautiful and controlled when i saw you, and were then definatly better than mine you should get them no problem.

Tennis

tennis - ive tried them a few times my leg allways gets in the way though... grrr

more practise needed, but thanks for giving me inspiration...

I feel liek such a goober... I can now add behind the head weaving to my repetoire... I don't know why I never thought to go there before.. I mean I guess I didn't really think of it in those terms at least...

I learned one of the most important parts of becoming a good twirler and thats to Flow! I don't think in terms of move anymore i look at the big picture and what would be visually pleasing and most importantly what feels the best for my style. Joining the site has made me into on of you darn Poi addicts. Someday they'll have to open up P.A. meetings (Poi Anonymous) especially for members of this site

i am sooooo thankful to my weekend in kent.....i learned a grip of new moves i learned the fountain, the 4beat weave (almost, still tangle a bit but i have a huge bruise on my arm from jelly wrestling so it's impeding my learning at the moment), turning with the windmill, and a few other turns and plane manipulations

whats the last thing a fire dancer says before going up in flames? watch this!!!